Strip 365 -- First Seen: 2010-02-05
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What Comes Next

The war is over, but This Means War has a ways to go. Novo Paolo/Bubbleopolis is still in a nebula/stellar nursery, no one knows what happened to the planet Sharen (center of the Intergalactic Council), and the status of the now-surrendered Invaders is yet to be resolved. What will they do when they learn their homeworld is basically destroyed? Will Alyss and Li be re-united? How about Diana (the real one) and Otto?

These questions will be resolved in the next few weeks, before This Means War part 3 wraps in late May.

After that, I plan to go BACK in time about 400 years, to when Alyss and Li left their home in the Sol System to colonize a new world on the far side of the galaxy. As one might expect, hijinks ensue. New subtitle yet to be determined, start date sometime in around the start of July. Stay tuned!

A Little House Cleaning

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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Re-establishing shot of Arana's office. Focus is on Arana but try to angle things so you get everyone – the girls and Reggie's hologram – into the shot.

Arana: I got bored.

Arana: Also, I wondered if I had what it took to pull off the biggest scam in human history.

Panel 2
Medium shot of Reggie's hologram, speaking.

Reggie: Not counting government, I think you succeeded.

Reggie: Your big heads got more press than any scam in history.

Panel 3
Medium shot of Arana basking in Reggie's praise.

Reggie: (OP) Your little 'scavenger hunt' fooled billions of suckers, not the least of which were the media.

Panel 4
Two-shot of the girls. Fiorella is laughing as Doris speaks.

Doris: Yeah, right.

Doris: So Reggie, when I contacted you about the 'Moai,' you just put two and two together?

Panel 5
Medium shot of Reggie's hologram.

Reggie: No, I knew something was funny about all this, but it took the Gray Alien to dial it in.

Reggie: So I contacted Arana, offered to help, and the rest is history.

Panel 6
Medium shot of Doris, looking back at Reggie's hologram.

Doris: Then you made sure I was there to 'communicate' with the Elvis Orb.

Doris: So why the park?


Panel 7
Medium shot of Arana, leaning forward on his desk, his face projecting excitement.

Arana: I actually wanted to create something lasting.

Arana: Plus, I needed funding to be able to carve those things. So I sought a real patron.


Panel 8
Two-shot of the girls, looking at each other in surprise.

Arana: I'd heard that Tobikuma Kobayashi had a quirky sense of humor.

Arana: So I decided to ask him to be my partner in crime.